Factors associated with refusal of rapid HIV testing in an emergency department

AIDS and Behavior

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 734-742

  Pisculli, Mary L ^a   Reichmann, William M ^a,b   Losina, Elena ^a,b   Donnell Fink, Laurel A ^a   Arbelaez, Christian ^a   Katz, Jeffrey N ^a,c   Walensky, Rochelle P ^a,d,e  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency department; HIV test acceptance; HIV test refusal; Human immunodeficiency virus; Rapid HIV testing; Routine HIV testing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COUNSELING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AIDS SERODIAGNOSIS; BOSTON; COUNSELING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TREATMENT REFUSAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959926997     PISSN: 10907165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10461-010-9837-2     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. CDC. HIV prevalence estimates - United States, 2006. MMWR. 2008;57(29):1073-6.
2. CDC. Revised recommendations for HIV testing of adults, adolescents, and pregnant women in health-care settings. MMWR. 2006;55(RR-14):1-17.
3. Ehrenkranz PD, Ahn CJ, Metlay JP, Camargo CA Jr, Holmes WC, Rothman R. Availability of rapid human immunodeficiency virus testing in academic emergency departments. Acad Emerg Med. 2008;15(2):144-50.
4. Heyman K, Schiller J, Barnes P. Early release of selected estimates based on data from the 2007 National Health Interview Survey. National Center for Health Statistics. 2008. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis.htm.
5. Heron SL, Stettner E, Haley LL Jr. Racial and ethnic disparities in the emergency department: a public health perspective. Emerg Med Clin North Am. 2006;24(4):905-23. (Pubitemid 44374861)
6. Oster A, Bindman AB. Emergency department visits for ambulatory care sensitive conditions: insights into preventable hospitalizations. Med Care. 2003;41(2):198-207.
7. Blanchard JC, Haywood YC, Scott C. Racial and ethnic disparities in health: an emergency medicine perspective. Acad Emerg Med. 2003;10(11):1289-93. (Pubitemid 37377288)
8. CDC. Missed opportunities for earlier diagnosis of HIV infection - South Carolina, 1997-2005. MMWR. 2006;55(47):1269-72.
9. Liddicoat RV, Horton NJ, Urban R, Maier E, Christiansen D, Samet JH. Assessing missed opportunities for HIV testing in medical settings. J Gen Intern Med. 2004;19(4):349-56. (Pubitemid 38530506)
10. Brown J, Shesser R, Simon G, Bahn M, Czarnogorski M, Kuo I, et al. Routine HIV screening in the emergency department using the new US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guidelines: results from a high-prevalence area. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2007;46(4):395-401. (Pubitemid 350098689)
11. Liddicoat RV, Losina E, Kang M, Freedberg KA, Walensky RP. Refusing HIV testing in an urgent care setting: results from the "Think HIV" program. AIDS Patient Care STDS. 2006;20(2): 84-92.
12. Silva A, Glick NR, Lyss SB, Hutchinson AB, Gift TL, Pealer LN, et al. Implementing an HIV and sexually transmitted disease screening program in an emergency department. Ann Emerg Med. 2007;49(5):564-72. (Pubitemid 46628721)
13. Merchant RC, Seage GR, Mayer KH, Clark MA, DeGruttola VG, Becker BM. Emergency department patient acceptance of opt-in, universal, rapid HIV screening. Public Health Rep. 2008; 123(Suppl 3):27-40.
14. Groseclose SL, Erickson B, Quinn TC, Glasser D, Campbell CH, Hook EW 3rd. Characterization of patients accepting and refusing routine, voluntary HIV antibody testing in public sexually transmitted disease clinics. Sex Transm Dis. 1994;21(1):31-5. (Pubitemid 24052124)
15. Weinstock H, Dale M, Linley L, Gwinn M. Unrecognized HIV infection among patients attending sexually transmitted disease clinics. Am J Public Health. 2002;92(2):280-3. (Pubitemid 34101442)
16. Walensky RP, Arbelaez C, Reichmann WM, Walls RM, Katz JN, Block BL, et al.) Revising expectations from rapid HIV tests in the emergency department. Ann Intern Med. 2008;149(3): 153-60.
17. Two approaches to routine HIV testing in a hospital emergency department- full text view-ClinicalTrials.gov. http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/ NCT00502944?term=usher&rank=6. Accessed 9 Oct 2009.
18. Walensky RP, Reichmann WM, Arbelaez C, Wright E, Katz JN, Seage GR, et al. Counselor- versus provider based HIV screening in the emergency department: results from the Universal screening for HIV-infection in the emergency room (USHER) randomized clinical trial. Ann Emerg Med. 2010; (supplement). In press.
19. Wuerz RC, Milne LW, Eitel DR, Travers D, Gilboy N. Reliability and validity of a new five-level triage instrument. Acad Emerg Med. 2000;7(3):236-42. (Pubitemid 30133936)
20. Hutton HE, McCaul ME, Santora PB, Erbelding EJ. The relationship between recent alcohol use and sexual behaviors: gender differences among sexually transmitted disease clinic patients. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2008;32(11):2008-15.
21. Raj A, Reed E, Santana MC, Walley AY, Welles SL, Horsburgh CR, et al. The associations of binge alcohol use with HIV/STI risk and diagnosis among heterosexual African American men. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2009;101(1-2):101-6.
22. TF H-BJ Babor, Saunders JB, Monteiro MG. The alcohol use disorders identification test (AUDIT). 2nd edn. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 2001.
23. Carey MP, Schroder KE. Development and psychometric evaluation of the brief HIV Knowledge Questionnaire. AIDS Educ Prev. 2002;14(2):172-82. (Pubitemid 34327116)
24. Zou G. A modified poisson regression approach to prospective studies with binary data. Am J Epidemiol. 2004;159(7):702-6. (Pubitemid 38405384)
25. Hutchinson AB, Corbie-Smith G, Thomas SB, Mohanan S, del Rio C. Understanding the patient's perspective on rapid and routine HIV testing in an inner-city urgent care center. AIDS Educ Prev. 2004;16(2):101-14. (Pubitemid 38544304)
26. Ostermann J, Kumar V, Pence BW, Whetten K. Trends in HIV testing and differences between planned and actual testing in the United States, 2000-2005. Arch Intern Med. 2007;167(19): 2128-35. (Pubitemid 350041622)
27. CDC. HIV/AIDS surveillance report, 2005. Vol. 17, Rev ed. Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 2007. p. 5-54. http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/resources/ reports/.
28. Hader SL, Smith DK, Moore JS, Holmberg SD. HIV infection in women in the United States: status at the Millennium. JAMA. 2001;285(9):1186-92. (Pubitemid 32198485)
29. Lyss SB, Branson BM, Kroc KA, Couture EF, Newman DR, Weinstein RA. Detecting unsuspected HIV infection with a rapid whole-blood HIV test in an urban emergency department. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2007;44(4):435-42. (Pubitemid 46555379)
30. Daskalakis D, Silvera R, Bernstein K, Stein D, Hagerty R, Hutt R, et al. Implementation of HIV testing at 2 New York City bathhouses: from pilot to clinical service. Clin Infect Dis. 2009;48(11):1609-16.
31. Dietz CA, Ablah E, Reznik D, Robbins DK. Patients' attitudes about rapid oral HIV screening in an urban, free dental clinic. AIDS Patient Care STDS. 2008;22(3):205-12. (Pubitemid 351380163)
32. Kalichman SC, Cain D. Repeat HIV testing and HIV transmission risk behaviors among sexually transmitted infection clinic patients. J Clin Psychol Med Settings. 2008;15(2):127-33.
33. Darrow WW, Montanea JE, Gladwin H. AIDS-related stigma among Black and Hispanic young adults. AIDS Behav. 2009;13(6):1178-88.
34. Mehrotra P, Noar SM, Zimmerman RS, Palmgreen P. Demographic and personality factors as predictors of HIV/STD partnerspecific risk perceptions: implications for interventions. AIDS Educ Prev. 2009;21(1):39-54.
35. MacKellar DA, Valleroy LA, Secura GM, Behel S, Bingham T, Celentano DD, et al. Perceptions of lifetime risk and actual risk for acquiring HIV among young men who have sex with men. AIDS Behav. 2007;11(2):263-70.
36. Boxall EH, Smith N. Antenatal screening for HIV; are those who refuse testing at higher risk than those who accept testing? J Public Health (Oxf). 2004;26(3):285-7. (Pubitemid 39312933)
37. Ford CL, Konrad TR, Godette DC, Corbie-Smith G. Acceptance of routine ELISA testing among black women STD patients: relationship to patient-provider racial concordance. Sex Transm Dis. 2008;35(3):211-3. (Pubitemid 351619527)
38. Reichmann WM, Losina E, Seage GR, Arbelaez C, Safren SA, Katz JN, et al. Does modality of survey administration impact data quality: audio computer assisted self interview (ACASI) versus self-administered pen and paper? PLoS One. 2010;5(1): e8728.